Pangaia Re-color Capsule turns offcut materials into colored dyestuffs
'This hoodie is colored using a technology that recycles our textile waste into new colors' | Image credit: Pangaia
Today, materials-science company Pangaia announced its latest innovation, the Re-color Capsule collection — featuring its signature 365 sweatshirts and sweatpants dyed with Recycrom™. The circular dye technology transforms Pangaia textile waste into colored powder dyestuffs.
The Re-color Capsule features four classic Pangaia styles colored with dyes
created with Pangaia offcut materials, and builds on the company’s efforts to find
color innovation and create dyes that are less water intensive and require no
harmful chemicals. Pangaia worked with Recycrom to transform its material
leftovers into brand new shades — a process that, once scaled, could help the
textile industry away shift from traditional, harmful chemical
dyes.
Recycrom is a patented dyestuff range from Italian textile chemical company
Officina+39, made from Pangaia textile waste. The
technology upcycles textile fibers into a full range of colored powders that the
company says can be used as a pigment dye for fabrics and garments made of
cotton, wool, nylon or any natural and most artificial fibers and blends. In
contrast to other dyes, Recycrom is not part of a chemical solution — which
means it can be easily filtered from waste
water,
reducing the environmental impact.
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The Re-color Capsule helps close the loop on Pangaia material offcut waste and —
in conjunction with collections such as its recent Reclaim
Capsule,
which features sweatshirts and sweatpants made from textile waste — is a step
closer a more circular system. The Re-color Capsule features a hoodie, track
pant, t-shirt and shorts in Aloe Green, Sky Blue, Apricot, Coral Pink and Banana
— muted colors all repurposed from PANGAIA core colors. The capsule will be
available only on Pangaia.com starting August 4.
Primark expands partnership with Recover, takes RColorBlend technology global
Image credit: Primark
Meanwhile, UK-based global apparel retailer
Primark recently announced it has expanded its
partnership with recycled cotton producer Recover™ and will become the first
high-street retailer to use Recover’s unique
RColorBlend fiber on a global scale,
in a new leisurewear range. The partnership supports Primark’s commitment,
through its Primark Cares
strategy, to increase the amount of clothing containing recycled materials and
builds on its ambition to make more sustainable fashion affordable for all.
“I am delighted to be expanding our partnership with Recover, to continue to
bring their innovations to a wide market and support our work to increase the
amount of recycled material we’re using in our clothes,” says Lynne Walker,
Director of Primark Cares at Primark. “For change to happen at scale across the
fashion industry, we need partnership and collaboration; and we will continue to
invest in partnerships like this to support our ambition to become a more
circular business and reduce the impact that we have on the environment.”
Recover produces a series of low-impact, high-quality recycled cotton fiber and
fiber blends — including RColorBlend — helping to close the loop on fashion.
RColorBlend is produced by blending Recover’s colored, recycled fiber from
textile waste – from factory floor cutting waste or used clothes – together with
a recycled carrier fiber. Color accuracy is achieved by mixing the two types of
fibers together, with no additional dyeing treatment and limited water and
chemicals to reduce the environmental impact.
The RColorBlend range — made using recycled cotton and polyester fibers in a
range of colors including grey, blue and pink — is available in selected stores
across 14 markets in Europe and the US. A fourth-generation, family-owned
company backed by recent investment from STORY3 Capital and Goldman Sachs,
Recover is on a mission to scale its proprietary technology to make a lasting
positive impact on the environment and partner with brands/retailers and other
change-makers to meet the industry’s sustainability targets.
“This latest product offering is another important milestone in our long-term
partnership with Primark, with the aim to make circular fashion accessible and
affordable for everyone,” says Alejandro Raña, Chief Business Development
Officer at Recover. “By integrating Recover’s RColorBlend recycled fiber within
their supply chain, Primark can produce high-quality garments in a large range
of colors and with minimum environmental impacts, helping to have a long-lasting
effect on the industry.”
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Sustainable Brands Staff
Published Aug 4, 2022 8am EDT / 5am PDT / 1pm BST / 2pm CEST